Salesforce.com has partnered with a leading MOOC platform, Udacity, to launch a FREE online course that teaches you how to build powerful web and mobile apps and host them in the cloud, without writing a line of code. By the end of this short course (10 hours or less), you'll use the skills you've developed to conceptualize and create your own app.

Force.com Platform provides an introduction to custom application development in the cloud. This course provides a high-level developer's perspective of the Force.com application development platform; it's metadata driven framework, services layer and more.

Force.com is a powerful cloud platform for rapidly building web applications. In this course, we look at all the major capabilities of the platform and discuss best practices for successfully building applications.